Philip obtained his PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven in January 2003 with a dissertation on the political economy of development and genocide in Rwanda. He specialises in the economic causes and consequences of conflict at the micro-level. Philip has done quantitative work on the death toll of the genocide and on the demography of post-genocide Rwanda. Philip was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at Yale University and worked for the World Bank as a Poverty Economist. He received the Jacques Rozenberg Award from the Auschwitz Foundation for his dissertation. Philip taught Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and at the Universities of Antwerp, Leuven and Utrecht. Philip was a research fellow from the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders, Belgium) and visiting fellow at ECARES (2007-2009). He currently holds the Marie and Alain Philippson Chair in Sustainable Human Development at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Philip is currently engaged in longitudinal studies of health, schooling and nutrition in Burundi where he is the lead researcher in a partnership between his university and UNICEF-Burundi, involving a.o. impact evaluation. Philip visited the Economics Department of UC Berkeley during the 2013 Fall semester.

Peasants in Power: The Political Economy of Development and Genocide in Rwanda, 2013, Springer Verlag, May

Violent Conflict and Behavior? Evidence from field experiments in Burundi
with Maarten Voors, Eleonora Nillesen, Erwin Bulte, Robert Lensink and Daan Van Soest, 2012, American Economic Review, April, Vol. 102, No. 2 pp. 941-64
An earlier version of the paper is available as HiCN working paper 71

Schooling, Violent Conflict and Gender in Burundi
with Jan Van Bavel, 2013. World Bank Economic Review, forthcoming.
Also available as HiCN Working Paper 101

Violent Conflict and Gender Inequality: an Overview
with Mayra Buvinic, Monica Das Gupta and Ursula Casaronne. 2013. World Bank Research Observer, February, 28(1)
Also available as HiCN working paper 129

Undernutrition, subsequent risk of Mortality and Civil War in BurundiEconomics and Human Biology, 2012 Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 221-231.
The working paper version of this paper is available as HiCN Working Paper 97

Demographic and Socio-Economic Distribution of Excess Mortality in the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, Journal of African Economies
with Damien de Walque, 2010, Journal of African Economies, 19(2), p.141-162.
Also available as HiCN Working Paper 54

Machetes and Firearms: the Organisation of Massacres in RwandaJournal of Peace Research, vol. 43, 1, 5-22, January 2006 (This paper received the Award for Best Paper published in JPR in 2006)

Fertility and Child Survival among Rwandan Refugees
With Jan Van Bavel, PRUS Working Paper 26, December 2004 and European Journal of Population, Special Issue of the Demography of violent conflict, 21:271-290, 2005
(This paper is also published in Demography of Armed Conflict, edited by H. Hegre, E. Tabeau and H. Urdal, Kluwer Academic Press, 2007)

Death and Survival during the 1994 genocide in RwandaPopulation Studies, vol 58, no.2, pp.233-245, 2004

Returning Home after Civil War: The Consequences of Forced Displacement for Food Security, Nutrition and Poverty among Burundese Households
With Juan-Carlos Munoz, 2013, HiCN Working paper 123

Poverty Dynamics, Violent Conflict and Convergence in Rwanda
with Patricia Justino, 2013. Review of Income and Wealth, Series 59, nr.1, March, pp.66-90
Also available as Research Working Paper 4, MICROCON (2008)

Business under Fire: Entrepreneurship and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries
with Tilman Brück and Wim Naudé, Journal of Conflict Resolution, February 2013, 57: 3-19

Food Security, Violent Conflict and Human Development: Causes and ConsequencesWorking Paper 2012-016. United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa, New York, May

The 1990-92 Massacres in Rwanda: a case of social and spatial engineering?
2011, Journal of Agrarian Change vol 11 (3), 396-419
This paper is available as HiCN Working Paper 94

Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Conflict in Developing Countries
With Wim Naudé and Tilman Brück (guest editors) 2011, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, vol.24, introduction to a special issue

Crop Failure, Civil War and Child Stunting in Rwanda
with Richard Akresh and Tom Bundervoet, 2011, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol.59, n.4, July, pp.777-810.
Also available as a World Bank Policy Research Paper

Winners and Losers among a Refugee-Hosting Population
With Jean-Francois Maystadt, HiCN Working Paper 60, 2009, Forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change

Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
With Tom Bundervoet and Richard Akresh, Journal of Human Resources Spring 2009, Vol 44, no 2, pp.536-563
An earlier version of this paper is available as a Policy Research Paper from the World Bank
A newer version of the paper is available as Research Working Paper 5, MICROCON

The Use and Perception of Weapons before and after Conflict: Evidence from Rwanda
With Cecelle Meijer, Working Paper, Small Arms Survey Geneva, October 2005

An economic profile of peasant perpetrators of genocideJournal of Development Economics 77 (2005), p.297-323

What are all the soldiers going to do? Demobilisation, re-intergration and employment in Rwanda
With Marijke Verpoorten, Conflict, Security and Development, 4:1 April 2004, pp.39-57

Rural households under extreme stress: survival strategies of poor households in post-genocide Rwanda
With Lode Berlage and Marijke Verpoorten, Report for the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), September 2003

Agricultural Policy,crop failure and the Ruriganiza famine (1989) in Southern Rwanda: a pre-lude to Genocide?
Centre for Economic Studies, Discussion paper June 2002